Quotes with despised

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  • Robert Burns Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
    Robert Burns
    Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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  • Angela Carter The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Edward Gibbon Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Edmund Burke Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Alice Duer Miller Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Lord Chesterfield Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Hans Magnus Enzensberger Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
    Hans Magnus Enzensberger
    German author, poet, translator and editor (1929 - )
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  • Jesse Jackson My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.
    Jesse Jackson
    American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader (1941 - )
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  • Seneca No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • William Shakespeare O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Samuel Butler The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Aldous Huxley Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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